As of August 31, 2024, nearly 4.2 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine due to Russia's ongoing war of aggression were under temporary protection status in the European Union (EU).
The countries hosting the largest numbers of Ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary protection were Germany, with 1,122,330 people (27.0% of the EU total), Poland, with 975,190 (23.4%), and Czechia, with 376,885 (9.1%).
Between the end of July and the end of August 2024, Germany saw the largest increase in beneficiaries, with an additional 11,730 people (+1.1%). Czechia followed with an increase of 7,275 (+2.0%), and Romania recorded 3,050 more beneficiaries (+1.8%). In contrast, Poland experienced a slight decrease (-1,015; -0.1%), as did France (-680; -1.1%) and Luxembourg (-10; -0.3%).
A map shows the distribution of non-EU citizens from Ukraine under temporary protection in the EU as of the end of August 2024. For detailed data, see the datasets migr_asytpsm and migr_asytpspop.
Relative to each country’s population, the highest ratios of temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand people were recorded in Czechia (34.6), Lithuania (27.6), and Poland (26.6), compared to the EU average of 9.3 per thousand.
Ukrainian citizens made up over 98.3% of the total beneficiaries at the end of August 2024. Adult women accounted for almost half (45.1%) of the protected population, while children comprised nearly one-third (32.3%). Adult men represented 22.6% of the total.
These figures reflect the temporary protection status granted under the Council Implementing Decision 2022/382 of March 4, 2022, which recognized the mass influx of displaced persons from Ukraine due to the Russian war. On June 25, 2024, the European Council decided to extend this protection from March 4, 2025, to March 4, 2026. Photo by Dpsu.gov.ua, Wikimedia commons; ec.europa.eu/eurostat).
